After a one year break from Europe's Favourite Tv Show, Cyprus will be returning in some style with no less than 60 songs in contention to to represent the Mediterranean island in the 60th Eurovision Song Contest

The Irish broadcaster RTÉ has announced today that they are now looking for song submissions to represent the country in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. The public are invited to submit their entries with a song and performer(s). They can also suggest how the song should be presented on stage. A judging panel from RTÉ will select a shortlist from the entries received.

Do you have a perfect song for Iceland? Do you meet the rules criteria for participation? Then wait no more and submit your song as the call for entries is already open and the deadline is the 20th of October.

Writing a blog on the BBC Eurovision website, Executive Producer and Head of Delegation for the United Kingdom, Guy Freeman, has launched a revamped selection process for 2015, by announcing that publically submitted entries will be accepted for the first time since 2008.

PBS in Malta have announced on the television show Xarabank the 20 songs which have reached the semi final stage of the contest to represent Malta in next year's Eurovision Song Contest. Last weeki t was announced that 134 songs had been submitted in total, and those were reduced down to 48 for the next phase of the competition. Now the 20 songs that have reached the semi-final have been revealed, and an extract of each song was shown. As always there are a few familiar names amongst the line-up.

The Sanremo Festival was organized for the first time in 1951 and was the main inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest five years later. Many Sanremo winners went on to represent Italy in Eurovision and, as its rules state, this might be the case in 2015 again.

A Dal, the national selection in Hungary, has been a real success story both in terms of viewing figures and results in the subsequent Eurovision Song Contest. Thus, it's no surprise that Hungarian public broadcaster MTV and MTVA have decided to continue using the very same mode also in 2015.

Following Conchita Wurst's victory in the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, host broadcaster ORF is taking care to be represented by a high-quality act on home ground in 2015: Four prime time shows will be broadcast in order to select the Austrian entry, with some of the country's most successful musicians involved in the process.

Reducing the number of participants, having more songs in the final and limit the number of votes per telephone. These are the news in the rules of Melodifestivalen, Sweden's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, which will choose its entry for Vienna on March 14th in Stockholm's Friends Arena.

On Monday things are getting serious in Switzerland: All artists interested in representing the country in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest can start uploading their songs onto the official Eurovision platform set up by public broadcaster SRF. Do you want to participate, too? Then do not hesitate - you will have time until October 27 to submit an entry!

The island nation of Malta will be amongst the first countries to select their entry for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, when they stage their national final on Saturday the 22nd of November. With less than two months to go, they have revealed the 48 songs and artists that have made it through to the second phase from the 134 songs submitted to the national broadcaster PBS.

The F.Y.R. Macedonian national selection sounds very promising, with a lot of entertainment, a new location and a bigger stage! And what is more: the national final will be a part of the Skopje Festival 2014. The F.Y.R. Macedonian broadcaster MRT announced 20 lucky artists who will fight for the ticket to represent F.Y.R. Macedonia in Vienna.

Estonia is also getting ready for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in Austria. Eesti Laul 2015, the national selection of this Baltic country, will start on the 1st of December and the 'super-final' round is scheduled for the 21st of February in Tallinn.